Our son has multiple food allergies, including sunflower seeds. You can go through your family doctor to get a referral to an allergist. Depending on where you live, this could take 6 months or more, but once you receive the referral, you could ask to be put on a cancellation list to receive an earlier appointment. In the meantime, your GP can give you a prescription for an Epipen, or you can also buy it over the counter without a prescription for around $100. We have needed to give our son the Epipen 3 times, and it really is a miracle watching his symptoms diminish within 5-10 minutes, so don't hesitate to use it if you need it. After the Epipen, you will still need to go to the hospital so you can be monitored for any further allergic symptoms. We tell our son there is no where else more important to be than at the hospital if you've had an allergic reaction so you don't have a secondary (bi-phasic) reaction which is a possibility. Don't fear it, but be prepared to take action if necessary. We're so fortuante this life-saving medication exists to counter the effects of a life-threatening reaction.

More of it deals with sesame and mustard allergies, but a lot of the advice holds for other seed allergies.

Because sunflower isn't considered a "priority allergen", you'll have to be quite careful with processed foods that have terms like "natural flavors" or "hydrogenated protein". It's tedious, but in case of doubt: call the manufacturer to see if the term means sunflower or something else. When there isn't time, maybe prepare a different dinner. Cooking from scratch is true a lifesaver with food allergies.

Hopefully its just sunflower seed and not oil as the oil is very very difficult to avoid (it is often listed as vegetable ' oil and other than phoning the manufacturer there is no way of know where it originates from....its also a very interchangeable oil depending on what is cheapest at the time ...eg one time you phone the manufacturer they might be using sunflower...the next batch may have canola as that is the cheapest at the time....
From experience the concentrated products such as 'sunbutter ' are much more highly allergenic than the plain seeds (ie instant anaphylaxis with a tiny taste prior to knowing about the sunflower allergy)...it has always tested about 25mm for my son where as seeds only score about 4mm.

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